A review by adrianasturalvarez
The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille by Georges Bataille

4.0

THE ORATORIO

Characters

The Narrator.

The Whore, 90 years old, dying (she was adorably beautiful at 20; one day when she was naked she did for God what Aurcourt does for Duclos in 120 Days).

The Priest, 30 years old.

God, a sort of paving stone.

Not a great starting point for Bataille but for anyone familiar with his thinking and work the poetry collected in English translation here is a pure delight. He requires context to sort out why so many times a poem includes images of the narrator pissing on himself.

I have grown to love this weirdo intellectual and these collected poems have only deepened that love.